Wall Lake News

Former Iowa first lady Christie Vilsack says she's decided not to seek the Democratic nomination to run against Republican U.S. Sen.

For more than 60 years, Andy Williams' smooth crooning style has endeared him to countless millions.

If you remember Andy Williams at all, you remember "Moon River," the easy smile, the colorful sweaters.

IT was not exactly a glam orous gig. Every day after school and all day on Saturdays an eight-year-old Andy Williams, together with his three older brothers Bob, Don and Dick, would make their way to the local funeral parlour in Des Moines, Iowa, take up their positions behind a drawn curtain and sing doleful hymns.

A man out goose hunting Tuesday morning told investigators he accidentally shot a trumpeter swan.

A 60-year-old Urbandale man has been charged with six counts of possession of child pornography.

MOON RIVER AND ME: A MEMOIR By Andy Williams Viking, $25.95, 320 pages REVIEWED BY JAMES E. PERSON JR.

Six talented Junior division acts have advanced to the semifinal rounds in Bill Riley's 50th annual Iowa State Fair Talent Search.

It was just a year-and-a-half ago when the city announced that three houses needed to be demolished to make room for the reconstruction of the King's Highway Bridge.

The Iowa State Patrol is investigating a fatal crash at Lake View in western Iowa this morning.

The 1990s was the biggest decade of growth for Wall Lake Township in the 20th century.

The future of South Twin Lake will be up for discussion this evening in Rockwell City.

The Renewable Energy Group will hold a ribbon-cutting event, with a tour and live demonstrations, on Tuesday as it celebrates the opening of its research facility at 416 S. Bell Ave.

A caravan of foreign dignitaries who are being brought to Iowa as part of Sen. Chuck Grassley's 12th Ambassadors Tour is scheduled for Aug.

Organizers hope they can toot Glenn Miller's horn a little louder with a new museum to honor the late big band leader and native of southwest Iowa.

The Iowa DNR along with Hamilton County Conservation Board will release two pair of Trumpeter Swans in Hamilton County on Wednesday.

Gates open at 10 a.m. 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. - General entertainment 11:30 a.m. - Ed Aragoni, balloon artist and magician, west side of the stockade Noon to 12:30 p.m. - Bob Hamm, cowboy entertainer, in front of the stockade 12:30 p.m. to 1 p.m. - Doc Anderson on the porch of the Trading Post or other areas along Front Street 1 p.m. - Fort Dodge ...

Heat 1: 1. Dustin Haggard, Humboldt; 2. Cody Wirt, Otho; 3. Tyler Pickett, Boxholm.

Ray Manning Hull DVM died May 10, 2009, at the Hiawatha Care Center, Hiawatha. Ray Hull was born July 8, 1924, in Lytton, Iowa, to Homer Francis and Helen Madora Hull.

Renewable Energy Group of Ames has reached a deal to take over two biodiesel producers in Iowa and a third in Illinois.